The world was willing to hope for the best when the Khmer Rouge took control of Phnom Penh in April 1975. The previous regime of Lon Nol had been corrupt, and the war between Lon Nol’s forces and the insurgents was over. The Khmer Rouge immediately ordered the entire population of Phnom Penh and other cities in Cambodia to leave for the countryside, citing the threat of imminent bombing by the United States.
mandag 10. februar 2025
Obituary: François Ponchaud, French Missionary Who Alerted the World to the Khmer Rouge
François Ponchaud, the French missionary who revealed the reality of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge to the outside world, has died aged 85. Ponchaud spent 56 years of his life as a missionary in Cambodia, and was the first to provide an authoritative account of the horrors committed by Pol Pot’s genocidal regime which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
The world was willing to hope for the best when the Khmer Rouge took control of Phnom Penh in April 1975. The previous regime of Lon Nol had been corrupt, and the war between Lon Nol’s forces and the insurgents was over. The Khmer Rouge immediately ordered the entire population of Phnom Penh and other cities in Cambodia to leave for the countryside, citing the threat of imminent bombing by the United States.
The world was willing to hope for the best when the Khmer Rouge took control of Phnom Penh in April 1975. The previous regime of Lon Nol had been corrupt, and the war between Lon Nol’s forces and the insurgents was over. The Khmer Rouge immediately ordered the entire population of Phnom Penh and other cities in Cambodia to leave for the countryside, citing the threat of imminent bombing by the United States.
